The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-30
FARM AND GARDEN.
FLAVOR ron 1

herbs, like parsley, have been mixed,
DEMAND FOR ELABORATED SMALL
FRUITS
The small fruits ripen Ia hot weather.
when drying them by old-fashioned
methods was very difficult. The eva
porator does its best work IN these, and
its use has created a popular demand
for the eyaporated product which as
yet has never been fully supplied. The
black and red raspberr.es are especially
valuable, and the demand for eyapora-
ton will long keep the price during the
picking season at a paying rate,
PoTAsH FROM ~APPLE-TREE WOOD.
Every farmers wife knows that
~apple-wood ashes make a very strong
lye. This Is also true of most frait
trees, and especially those that have
been very productive. The green fruit
needs potash to enable it to ripen. and
the roots take up sap filed with this
mineral wherever it is available. Some
Of this never leaves the tree. but re-
mains in the yearly layer Of wood. A
young tree chat has never borne is not
so rich in potash as an old one.
WEAVING YOUNG COLTS.
II is needless cruelty to q young colt
% let Ii run with Its dam until Winter,
when there will be an entire change of
feed from green 70 dry. No amount
of grain will keep such a colt thrifty
during its first Winter. Wean it while
it can get some green feed, and where
apples are plenty put up a few to DO fed
to the colt daily when cold weather
comes. A few apples daily with some
oats are better than an al grain ration
for colts or any young horses.
COWS NOT WORTH KEEPING.
The cost Of keeping COW varies
With locality and other circumstances.
Still, no matter how eheaply a cow may
oe kept, there is a limit of produc-
ion below which she will not pay.
And that limit is much farther up
than is often thought. Suppose that
the farmer can at the end OF q year ffg-
ure a few dollars profit above cost.
The question for him is whether he
al afford to take this small profit. em-
pioying his time, stable room and feed
to SO little advantage. when he might
with hetfer selection of animals make
much larger gains.
FURRowING WINTER WHEAT
No matter how well drained the soil
may be by underdrains, it needs some
open burrows TO carry of surface water,
or Winter wheat II certa My suffer.
OF late years the practice Of opening
burrows through low places has been
generally neglected. ii should be done
as soon as the wheat is sown, but
if neglected then il may DO done
any time before Winter, though
at the sacrifice Of some wheat. After
furrowing out the roller should Be
run Ienghwise Of the open furrow on
either SIDE. This viii D down the
ridge made BY the plow, and allow free
passage Of surface water 70 Che open
drain.
fSOoTs FOR WINTER USE.
The white or fiaa turnip is grown
quickly and must be used early. III Is
OF comparatively little value is food for
stock, as only horned cattle aud sheep
will eat it without being half starved.
and when eaten its nutrition is small in
proportion to its bulk. The Swedish
turnip or rutabaga is q better cropper.
keeps until nearly Spring, if well GOV
cred with earth, and has m6re nutri
ment. All turnips are, however, OBJ
jectionable as food for COWS. The
mangel wurtzeI beet i lhe hest far late
feeding, and good supply Of these To
give to the new mich COWS about their
calving time. ii MArh 81 April. Is
essential to success ii DIS rging.
THE POTATO scAB.
The Connecticut experiment statlon
Bulletin has the follow ng to ofrer re-
lative 10 the disease known AS scab.
which affects potatoes '.The skin of
the potatosis a layer Of cork-cells. and
when injured 1t heals by the formation
Of Il new cork layer. When the tnber
grows IN water, or in . wet soil, the
cork thickens at yarious points, pro-
ducing many little warts on the surface,
and rendering the cuticle less resistant
of decay. III tie excess Of water con-
tinnes for 4 considerable time, decay
sets ii and the starch and tissues Of the
tuber becomes d~iseolored. But ii the
decay IS arrested. the cork las ef forms
between the decayed and healthy parts
and the potato is scabbY.
porATo BEETLES IN ocToBsR
Often at digging time, ii Indian
Summer weather, tho potato beetle
win be numerous and ~voracious. The
vines are dead and the beetle il oblig-
I'd 10 depend upon the tRher. He Will